“We are not specialists in jumps,” said Marc Coma, soon after jumping his KTM 450 Rally 50 feet between two dunes, reaching a height of 20 feet. “Usually for [Dakar riders] it is important to keep the wheels on the ground in pursuit of pure speed.”

With Ronnie Renner in Dubai for X-Fighters and Marc Coma in Abu Dhabi for the Desert Challenge (which he won), Red Bull took the opportunity to put two of its athletes together in the same photos. These images were shot on the dunes that separate the two emirates.